Past Newsletters

September 2025 Newsletter – Choosing Curiosity Over Fear

September 3, 2025 “Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart. The rest of it will take care of itself.” “Your fear will always be triggered by your creativity, because creativity asks you to enter into realms of uncertain outcome, and fear hates uncertain outcome.” “What you produce is not necessarily always sacred, I realized,…

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April 2025 Newsletter: Joy as a Spiritual Necessity

April 12, 2025 “An optimist isn’t necessarily a blithe, slightly sappy whistler in the dark of our time. To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, and kindness. What we…

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October 2024 Newsletter: Home is a State of Mind

October 1, 2024 Homecoming – An Impromptu PoemI left my hometown when I was young and came back in my old age. Although my local accent has not changed, the hair on my temples has turned gray.When the children in my hometown saw me, no one recognized me. They smiled and asked me: “Guest, where did you…

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August 2024 Newsletter: Rainbow after a Thunderstorm

August 11, 2024 “ My father would always say, people who practice martial arts go through three stages: seeing yourself, seeing the world, seeing all living beings.” – The Grandmaster, film by Wong Kar Wai How are you all? Last Sunday I led a sunset meditative walk to the Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge Park. Just two hours before…

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April 2024 Newsletter: The Arrival of Spring

April 20, 2024 “Love yourself.  Then forget it. Then, love the world.” – Mary Oliver How have you been?!  It’s been a while since I last wrote.  Where do I start?  I spent last year teaching the Soul-Centric Midlife classes and it’s been a fulfilling journey.  Exploring the common challenges we face while fostering a sense of…

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February 2023 Newsletter: Soulcentric Midlife

February 2023 This weekend I hosted my first AAPI community gathering and it was really moving to hear the shared experiences in a community setting.  There is something really comforting and supportive to hearing our individual diaspora experiences mirrored in a larger group.  Afterward, we shared homemade rice dumplings and baked goods in a potluck…

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January 2023 Newsletter: Emerged from the Pandemic

January, 2023 “I believe we each carry true wilderness, and thanks to that wildness, our lives need not be determined by our biological inheritance or our prior experience.  Perhaps our lives are most creative and fulfilling when we have accessed and embodied that wildness, our deepest individual potentials and destines for which we were born…our…

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January 2022 Newsletter: Home Retreat

January 2022 What we once deeply loved we can never lose,for all that we loved deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller How has your holiday season been?  As we passed the winter solstice and sunlights gradually returning to a longer duration in the northern hemisphere, are you taking in the light and…

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November 2021 Newsletter: Building Communities

November, 2021 “Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.” ― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings…

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